Subject: Trump now presumptive GOP nominee after Cruz leaves race
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May 3, 2016
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Welcome to the CNN Politics Nightcap and good Tuesday night from Indianapolis. Ted Cruz just ended his presidential bid after Donald Trump delivered the fatal blow by winning Indiana's primary -- making the real estate mogul the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination. Bernie Sanders topped Hillary Clinton in Indiana -- but it likely won't make much of a difference in the Democratic primary fight. Your bartender is Eric Bradner (http://www.cnn.com/profiles/eric-bradner?cid=nl_pol_071915_profile?sr=nl_pol_072215_bradner) . The tip jar: [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) .

** Trump now presumptive Republican nominee
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As Ted Cruz dropped out of the GOP race in Indianapolis, Donald Trump's supporters watched on TV in New York as they came to grips with the reality that Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee. When he took the stage (after some speech revisions, per aide Paul Manafort), Trump heaped praise on Indiana voters, bemoaned negative ads and added, "The people are so smart -- they don't buy it; they get it." Here's the latest from CNN's Stephen Collinson (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/indiana-primary-highlights/index.html) .

What Trump said about Cruz: "Ted Cruz -- I don't know if he likes me or if he doesn't like me, but he is one hell of a competitor. He is a tough, smart guy, and he has got an amazing future."

General election mode: He attacked Hillary Clinton for her comments in March that she'd put West Virginia coal miners out of work -- which Clinton backtracked from Monday. Trump said: "I watched her talking about the miners as if they were just numbers." More Trump: "We're going after Hillary Clinton. ... She will be a poor president. She doesn't understand trade."

John Kasich is still in the race. And his aides say he's staying in the race until a candidate has 1,237 delegates. His tweet (https://twitter.com/johnkasich/status/727660377819910144?refsrc=email&s=11) directed at Cruz: "Sen. @tedcruz should be proud of his strong and disciplined campaign. Texas is lucky to have you. Best wishes going forward. -John"

But RNC Chairman Reince Priebus stuck a fork in Kasich -- and declared Trump the "presumptive GOP nominee" -- with this tweet (https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992) :

** Ted Cruz quits race after Trump cruises in Indiana
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Acknowledging that his path to the Republican nomination "has been foreclosed" after Donald Trump cruised to a win in Indiana's 57-delegate primary, Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign. He told supporters in Indianapolis: "We left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we got, but the voters chose another path. And so, with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign." CNN's Maeve Reston looks at how it ended (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/ted-cruz-drops-out/index.html) .

The Ted Cruz meltdown: Everything he tried in Indiana failed. The John Kasich alliance backfired; the Carly Fiorina gamble didn’t work after he sent her to the wrong places; the attempt to borrow the Hollywood magic of “Hoosiers” looked silly after Trump deployed a real Hoosier hoops legend, Bobby Knight. The biggest mistake: Cruz’s message was tin-eared, ignoring Indiana’s economic conservatives. “Evan Bayh told me this when I first went to work for him: The key to Indiana is to know that yes, we’re a Republican state and we’re a conservative state, but we’re conservative on money, not social issues,” said Dan Parker, the former Indiana Democratic Party chairman. “And Cruz missed that.” My story with MJ Lee (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/ted-cruz-meltdown-indiana-election-2016/index.html) .
Buzzing

Mark Salter, the close friend and aide to Arizona Sen. John McCain, caused waves by announcing (https://twitter.com/MarkSalter55/status/727500491962339328) he's backing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump -- using Clinton's #ImWithHer terminology.

Last Call

** Sanders notches a win -- but Clinton is still on track
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In the Democratic race, delegates are awarded proportionally. What that means: Narrow wins don't help Bernie Sanders close his massive gap with Hillary Clinton. But that's exactly what the Vermont senator got on Tuesday -- giving a boost to his campaign after losing five of six East Coast primaries. The result showed Clinton is still struggling to win white voters. And it could help Sanders regain the fundraising steam he had through February and March, after his online, small-dollar operation slowed in April.

Sanders was in Louisville, Kentucky, for his Tuesday night event, just across the Ohio River from Indiana. Clinton was at home in New York.

** Tuesday on the trail: Trump got weird, and then Cruz got mean
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Hours before Indiana's polls closed, Donald Trump did it again, stating something from a highly questionable source as if it's fact. He credulously cited a National Enquirer story about a link between Ted Cruz's father and John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. During a phone interview on "Fox & Friends," Trump said Cruz's father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being, you know, shot ... and nobody even brings it up, I mean, they don't even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it. But I think it's horrible." CNN has not independently confirmed the report -- and there is no evidence that it is true. More from CNN's Brian Stelter (http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/03/media/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-media/index.html) .

Cruz called it "nuts" -- and then absolutely unloaded on Trump (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html) in Evansville with his sharpest series of insults yet. He called Trump a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer."

Cruz's other targets: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch and chief executive Roger Ailes. "There is a broader dynamic at work, which is network executives have made a decision to get behind Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network," Cruz told reporters, CNN's Dylan Byers reports (http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/03/media/ted-cruz-roger-ailes-rupert-murdoch/index.html) .

** Carrier workers in viral video struggle to believe in candidates
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From CNN's Tom LoBianco (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/carrier-video-indiana-trump-cruz-sanders/index.html) in Indianapolis: On February 10, more than 1,400 workers at a Carrier furnace-manufacturing plant here were brought together and told their plant was closing and moving to Mexico. After the scene was caught on video and went viral, it became the allegory of the campaign trail, finding its way into the center of campaign pitches. But the flood of attention for the workers at the plant these past few weeks has been bittersweet at best -- unearthing feelings of ambivalence toward the White House contenders who say they will ride in to save their jobs and others, while they also relish watching Carrier become the target of 2016's raw, populist anger.

"I see it now as some of the candidates being opportunists, they're taking advantage of a situation, they're exploiting it," said Robert James, 57, of Indianapolis, who is a forklift operator at the plant. "But they're also being helpful to a degree. Carrier deserves a bigger spotlight for what they done and they asked for this." Said 37-year-old Frank Staples: "You can't really take the politics serious in this, the presidential candidates are saying what the people want to hear."
Straight Up

** "He describes his own battles with venereal diseases as his own personal Vietnam."
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-- More of Ted Cruz's takedown of Donald Trump, which CNN's Stephen Collinson recaps here (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/indiana-primary-highlights/index.html) .
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Closing Time

Ed Rollins, once Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, is joining (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/ed-rollins-donald-trump-super-pac/index.html) a pro-Donald Trump super PAC. ... Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he'll vote for Trump over Hillary Clinton, "but I'm not happy (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/bobby-jindal-vote-donald-trump-unhappy/index.html) about it." ... Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, says he's not being vetted (https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/623432) as a potential Clinton running mate.
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